As a result of this announcement posted to Twitter, Chrono.gg will be shutting down. As a result, development of this project will halt and the action will be disabled. Thank you for using Chrono Daily Deal.
A simple application that wraps the Deal-of-the-Day RSS system found on chrono.gg into a REST API, or a daily script to pull the deal from the feed and wrap it in a convenient JSON file.
To see a sample of the JSON output, visit https://elijahverdoorn.com/chronogg/deal.json
- Kotlin
- Spring Boot
- Cron
- RSS
- HTMLUnit
- JSoup
The application can be run either as a Spring Boot REST service, or as a simple on-off application. The one-off use case is designed to be used with cron, but other uses are welcome.
To run as a REST service, use ./gradlew bootRun.
To run as a standalone, one-off application use ./gradlew run
To create a standalone JAR, use ./gradlew bootJar
The application can be configured using a JSON file. Create a file following the schema outlined in sample-config.json. The one-off use case will make use of the values defined in this file.
Note: A sample cron entry that might be helpful for this application, assuming that your server is running on Pacific time, would be 2 9 * * * java -jar <PATH_TO_JAR>. This runs the program every day at 9:02AM pacific time, which is just 2 minutes after chrono.gg updates. This buffer time allows for any latency that may exist in the RSS feed refreshing.
The application takes an optional command-line argument, which is the relative file path of the config file. If no argument is provided, the program will fall back to ./config.json.